11-18-02.2. Statements of full consideration to be filed with recorder - Procedure -
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1. Any grantee or grantee's authorized agent who presents a deed in the office of the
county recorder shall certify on the face of the deed one of the following:
a. A statement of the full consideration paid for the property conveyed.
b. A statement designating one of the exemptions in subsection 6 which the grantee
believes applies to the transaction.
2. Any party who presents an affidavit of affixation to real property of a manufactured
home in the office of the county recorder in accordance with section 47-10-27 and who
acquired the manufactured home before the affixation of the manufactured home to
the real property shall either contain in or present in addition to the affidavit of
affixation a statement of the full consideration paid by the party for the manufactured
home before the affixation.
3. The recorder may not record any deed unless the deed complies with subsection 1 or
record any affidavit of affixation unless the affidavit complies with subsection 2.
4. The state board of equalization shall prescribe the necessary forms for the statements
and reports to be used in carrying out this section, and the forms must contain a space
for the explanation of special circumstances that may have contributed to the amount
of the consideration.
5. For purposes of subsection 1, the word "deed" means an instrument or writing
whereby any real property or interest therein is granted, conveyed, or otherwise
transferred to the grantee, purchaser, or other person, except any instrument or writing
that transfers any ownership in minerals or interests in minerals underlying land if that
ownership has been severed from the ownership of the overlying land surface or any
instrument or writing for the easement, lease, or rental of real property or any interest
therein.
6. This section does not apply to deeds transferring title to the following types of property,
or to deeds relating to the following transactions:
a. Property owned or used by public utilities.
b. Property classified as personal property.
c. A sale when the grantor and the grantee are of the same family or corporate
affiliate, if known.
d. A sale that resulted as a settlement of an estate.
e. All forced sales, mortgage foreclosures, and tax sales.
f. All sales to or from religious, charitable, or nonprofit organizations.
g. All sales when there is an indicated change of use by the new owners.
h. All transfer of ownership of property for which is given a quitclaim deed.
i. Sales of property not assessable by law.
7. Any person that, in the statements provided for in subsection 1 or subsection 2,
willfully falsifies the consideration paid for the transferred real property or the
manufactured home, as applicable, or interest therein is guilty of a class B
misdemeanor.